Gundam SEED: To Rebuild From Ashes
Chapter II
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Author's Note: Thanks to all the reviewers. And a special thanks to USS Kenji for helping me with the confusions of the story. Also please don't advise me to improve my grammar. I know my grammar is horrible and just by telling me to improve will not make it grade A material. I wish that were the case, then I would easily ace school. However all other constructive criticism will be appreciated.
Athrun made his way to the command room in relatively little time considering his distance away from the place. As he entered the room he noticed that not many were currently stationed there. Only a few were loitering around and they were mainly those of who managed the radar and communications of the Eternal. Also in the middle of the command room was Captain Bartfield. To Athrun, it seemed as if he rarely left the command room. Athrun walked up to the captain, standing a few feet away from him saluting. It didn't really matter considering that the Captain wasn't even facing his direction and wasn't going to but he did anyways.
"Captain, Pilot Zala reporting in sir."
"Yes, pilot do you know the reason of Pilot Yamato's departure?" Bartfield asked with his chins in his hand, his facial expression would show that he was in deep thought. Not that Athrun could see it.
"Not really sir, however Cagalli has said that he was heading in the direction of the Zeta 3-C section of Earth's orbit."
"Yes thank you pilot for that information, however our computers have already come up with that information."
Athrun flushed at his information's uselessness.
"However pilot, how does Ms Attha know where Pilot Yamato has departed to?"
"She saw him from the observation parts of the ship."
"Is that all?" Bartfield asked seeming a bit disappointed.
"Yes but she did speak with him."
"Really...?" Bartfield asked intrigued. "Get me Ms Attha, have her come to the command room at once." Bartfield directed to one of the soldiers that managed the communications.
"Permission to speak freely sir?" Athrun asked.
"Yes, of course." Bartfield replied.
"Why is it that you are looking for Kira? Has he done something that I should be aware about?"
"No, no he is not going to be put under arrest or anything." Here Bartfield gave a short laugh. "Not that we would be able to bring him back if that was the case anyways. Yet, the truth of the matter is, given past history we are not a hundred percent sure of his stability. It is rather normal for a person to detach themselves and do something stupid after war. With the assurance of the peace they have too much time to think about everything they have done within the war. At least that is the cases on the majority of the front line soldiers."
"What do you mean?" Athrun asked, for he was slightly perturbed by what the captain was saying.
"Too make it simple, many soldiers need psychological help. I was going to order Pilot Yamato to see the psychologist we have on board sometime today or at the very latest tomorrow, however it seems that he had other plans... Pilot I'm truly worried for his well being, I don't think it's safe for him to go through this without help."
"Why don't you send someone after him?" Athrun questioned.
"I am not sure of the pilot's motive. For all I know he may be trying to avoid anything military for a long while to come. However in my opinion I don't think he is trying to escape, however that is as far as I am willing to conclude on what he might be up to. However do you understand my concerns now?"
"Oh... I guess I understand." Was all Athrun said, after could he possibly say to something like that.
"Good, then you won't question why you will report to Dr. Garcia after I dismiss you."
"No I won't question your order sir, I understand." Athrun replied going back to military formality.
Both were left deep in thought as the door to the command room opened.
Cagalli walked into the command room wondering what was going on. She walked towards the captain noticing that Athrun was still at the command room. She stopped next to Athrun and spoke to the captain.
"Uh... I'm here captain."
"Good, now can you tell me everything about your conversation with Pilot Yamato?"
"Kira?" Cagalli asked confused.
"Yes." Bartfield answered.
"Um... he said that he was going to use my ship to check up on something."
"Did he give you anything more then that? An actual reason or was he that vague?" The captain asked.
"No, that's all that he said." Cagalli answered.
"Damn!" Bartfield shouted surprising everyone in the room. He usually wasn't the type to lose his control over his emotion, and to the crew, he seemed to be the role model of the perfect soldier.
He sighed then replied, "Well... I guess calling you two up here was for nothing, and I'm sorry for wasting your time. Can you two think of any reason why he might go to Zeta 3-C?"
"No." Was Cagalli's response.
"I can't either sir; I only know of one time that he went to that area of space, at least to my knowledge." Athrun replied.
"When was that?" Bartfield asked.
"Well... it was in one of the battles that happened several days ago. However I wasn't there with him. The only person I think was with him was Pilot Mwu. And fat lot that does for us. The only reason I even knew where Kira went was because of... Dearka!"
"What?" Bartfield asked.
"Well Kira and Mwu initially went to the Zeta 3-C region chasing a rogue mobile suit. I'm guessing it was Rau's however Dearka followed them along with Yzak." Athrun emphasized.
"Rallard! Get me the Archangel and let me talk with Pilot Dearka!" Bartfield yelled to one of the communicators.
"Pilot Zala and Ms Attha you have been most helpful, you may now leave. Also pilot, don't forget to go to the infirmary." The captain said to the two teens.
They nodded, and exited in confusion. Cagalli was especially confused at the captain's concern over her brother. She didn't understand what Kira would do to make the captain worry so much over his location.
"Athrun, what's going on?"
"I'm not a hundred percent sure, but from what the captain said, he doesn't trust Kira's mental stability at the moment. He doesn't know if Kira is doing something that is good for his sake right now. I'm not quite sure what his definition of unsafe refers to. Maybe he thinks that Kira is trying to desert.
"That's stupid why would he desert the military after the war is over?" Cagalli asked not fully getting it.
"No, not deserting from the military, deserting from his past life. You know go incognito so that his past life is just that, in the past."
"Oh you don't really think that he will do you, Kira isn't one to just abandon us." Cagalli asked feeling a fear in her heart that she doubted those words.
"No, he wouldn't under normal circumstances, however he believes the war is over. That he doesn't need to protect his friends anymore. At least that is what I'm guessing he's feeling. I truly believe that he believes that his 'job' is done so that he doesn't have to hang around anymore."
"Don't say that Athrun." Cagalli said weakly.
"Don't worry Cagalli that is just one of my ponderings, it's probably anything close to being the truth." Athrun said, trying to calm Cagalli down. 'But would the truth be any better?'
'Damn that boy, he's making me worry. God damn! The war just ended and I'll probably end up getting more grey hairs by him.' Andrew mused as he waited for Dearka to answer to the broadcast.
"This is Dearka Elthman, what is the reason for your calling?" A noise filtered through the channel before the connection on the screen completed itself.
"This is Andrew Bartfield, captain of the Eternal, and I have a question that involves your past participation in combat." Andrew said, thinking that announcing himself and his rank was rather pointless, seeing as how most of those on the Archangel already knew.
"I understand captain, of what battle are you questioning me?"
"It is the battle where you, Pilot Yamato, and Pilot Fllaga disappeared for 20-30 minutes."
"Oh is that so captain. Well what is your question?" Was Dearka's intrigued response.
"I would like to know where you and the other two pilots went." Andrew said.
"I believe that we went to some colony captain." Dearka said.
"There are no colonies according to the readings. Just some junk here and there." He heard from the captain, Dearka could tell that he was confused.
"I know captain, it wasn't a inhabited and fully functioning colony. For all I can tell only the air system of the colony worked."
"So are you saying that Pilot Yamato went to some destroyed, useless colony?"
"Yes Kira, Pilot Flagga, and I went to the colony of which you speak."
"Hold on there... Yes I have information of the past colony its name was "Mendel."
"As interesting as this conversation is captain, what is the point?" Dearka asked getting annoyed at the conversation going nowhere.
"We have recently understood that Pilot Yamato has went back to the Colony Mendel, and we are trying to figure out why." Was the captain's response.
"I am not sure of why he went there captain. I was separated with Kira at arriving at the colony. The only person with him was Pilot Flagga, and I'm guessing Rau."
"Understood Pilot Elthman. Thank you for your help."
The communication closed, and Andrew was still hungry for answers. He got to the point of knowing Kira's destination however that was it, not the motive. 'What are you up to Kira?'
(8 hours later)
Kira found himself awaking from his sleep by a beeping noise within the ship. It indicated that he was near his destination of Memphis. He adjusted the settings to allow him to manually pilot the ship, allowing him to enter the colony unscathed.
Kira flew into what could be considered the colony's main hanger. He exited the hanger with his space suit on knowing that he only needed to reach the other side for breathable air. Kira didn't understand how the colony still had air in it even though it looked to be non-functioning and non- repairable. He also didn't truly know what happened to Memphis nor did he want to find out, at the moment. He was there for a different purpose.
He retraced his steps to where he followed Rau in the previous battle. After a brief walk he found himself in front of the building that carried the information he sought. Kira went towards each of the computers at the labs hoping to find if there was any still functioning. It seemed a hopeless search until he reached a room that was very deeply rooted into the building. It was a room that seemed to be the library of everything that was accomplished at the lab.
Kira already knew that he was the only survivor of the tests and that he was considered to be the "Ultimate" coordinator. However that was just about all he knew. He didn't understand how he was so special. He fought at an average level compared to the other coordinators. Barely beating some of them, and he knew that he was equal at level of skills to Athrun. So he didn't understand what was different about him. What required countless years of research to achieve one boy? What was the backbone of this operation?
He spent several hours searching through everything and anything that seemed vaguely important. After 5 hours he basically absorbed decades of research. At that moment he was grateful that he was a coordinator. For it would have been hell had he not been one to get all the information needed in the time that he was hoping for.
Kira found, at the immediate look at things that he was only slightly improved compared to the coordinators of the time. He was enhanced to the fullest of his abilities without completely mutating the genes for overloaded alterations. However it was in the long run that he was superior.
Currently coordinators were feeling the pains of their genetic altering in their 3rd generation offspring's. And it seemed that the whole of the coordinator lives would be lucky to reach their 4th-5th generation, for complications occurred at that time. The PLANT government at this time was covering up this "screw up" pretty well with only a certain few knowing of it. Hoping to reduce panic and have their scientist work frantically to search for a cure. The scientists that were at the labs knew in advance of this genetic screw up and seemed to have already made a cure.
The cure that lied interwined in Kira's very genetics. His blood carried the genetic structuring that could cure the genetic fuck up of every coordinator, so that their offspring's won't be "defected." The only question that laid in his mind, was did it work. For it seemed that the scientists of this lab died without fully completing the tests. It was hypothesized that all he had to do was donate a bit of blood to one coordinator, and his genetics would automatically join with the coordinator receiving the blood.
From there the genetic structuring would spread like a virus, only this virus would save lives and not harm it. For all the coordinators receiving the blood would automatically infuse their defected genetics with his genetics altering it ensure prosperous offsprings. Then they too would spread with their blood donations. It seemed like a good chain reaction theory.
Yet Kira didn't know what to think. He wasn't an expert in genealogy and wasn't going to kid himself anytime soon into believing he was. What would his genetic do to naturals. Surely even though their offsprings won't be freaks or whatnot, they will somehow get effected from this ever transmitting "virus." Would that also mean Kira's other genetic structuring also mutate the coordinators genes? Will they somehow turn up with purple eyes or brown hair like him? Were the scientists advanced enough to kill the side effects or were they that desperate to ensure the coordinator's survival that they would forfeit humanity's individuality.
'I need help from someone that is an expert at this. But who can be an expert at this and still not have found a cure themselves? If a person were to be able to help me they should have been able to be smart enough to help the coordinator race. Would that also make me Blue Cosmos' number 1 target? Did they even know of the Coordinator's genetic fault?'
'I'm thinking about this too much. I should be more optimistic about this. I'm the hope for the whole coordinator race.'
Kira went back to the hanger wondering how he was going to present his dilemma. Would the others even believe him, most likely they don't even know about the fault in the coordinator's genetics.
Note: Yeah review I'll appreciate it, helpful comments here and there. Lol, hope you liked the story but I think that my updating is going to come at a slower rate after this. Summer school is increasing the intensity a level or two.